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Audiobooks 0.5.6 (beta) — no-interruption

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@fenleon fenleon released this 14 Aug 15:01
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Audiobooks 0.5.6 — the no-interruption release. Beta: suitable for daily use; features and behavior may still evolve before a stable release.

What's new since v0.5.5

  • Opening a book no longer stops what you're listening to. The companion keeps playing the current book until you explicitly press play on another one. Opening a book's screen is now a preview — title, author, saved position, and duration are shown while the audio you were listening to continues. (Once a book is actually playing, speed and chapters appear as before.)
  • The play/pause icon no longer flickers during skips. A ±15 s skip on a real-size file re-buffers briefly, which used to flip the icon to "paused" for a second while audio kept playing. Playback state now reports intent, so the icon stays put through re-buffers and only changes on a real pause or the book ending.
  • Faster position restore on load (1 s polling while the player screen is open; hidden screen still polls nothing).

(v0.5.5's slim build — R8-minified, ~6-7 MB per APK, ML Kit QR scanner excluded — and v0.5.0's scan cache + battery rework are unchanged.)

Known limitations

  • Volume buttons are not wired to playback volume yet — on the roadmap. (The media session is registered and audio plays on the media stream; the rocker does not adjust it today.)
  • Embedded chapters inside a folder book's individual files are not merged; folder books stay file-per-chapter.
  • The dev signing key is for development only — not a production identity (anyone with the repo can sign builds with it; a real public release should use a private per-app keystore).

Install

Both APKs are required (the tool and its companion):

  • app-release.apk — the Audiobooks tool (com.lightphone.audiobooks)
  • server-release.apk — the companion (com.lightphone.audiobooks.server)

Dev-signed with the Light SDK development key. On a real Light Phone 3 (via the community ADB route): install both, then set Developer options → External tools → All tools to see Audiobooks in the toolbox. The companion also appears as a toolbox entry on the real device — the row is a no-op to tap (it has no UI).

Checksums (SHA-256):

app-release.apk    f543ce3e900856a2a364d668d6b16003dd510eec9ef7cc3cfa93da94f8ba87a2
server-release.apk bd465991fb7a9bf64d8f2e126f98935ad8237f1c2d7e4b5fbc873b974d65ace6
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